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Flying Free
A dark memoir of an addict who was addicted to everything - especially if it meant it was going to kill her in the end. Booze, weed, cocaine and every party drug you can imagine were her daily go-to's but then she found the true love of her life and her ultimate demise, Crystal Meth. Meth was the dirtiest drug she had ever taken both inside and out. It's a low grade drug also known as poor man's cocaine that ravaged her mind, body and soul like nothing else ever could. She could feel herself changing - morphing into something ugly. The goodness of her heart and the compassion of her soul began to melt away like skin off the bone. After four years on the drug and at 29 years of age she felt l...
The Transparent Dinner
Poetry. Christine Hamm's poetry brings the reader into a fairy tale world of dark and dangerous secrets, where a mother is a pile of sticks, a husband can be wished into a cat and a movie can be made from adolescent sexual experiences. Within the imaginative world of THE TRANSPARENT DINNER, Hamm reveals truths about a woman's intimacies and relationships. Christine Hamm is on the editorial board of several literary journals, including Vernacular. She teaches English at Rutgers University and poetry writing at Women's Studio Center in Queens, NY . Her work has been anthologized in Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader and The Murdering of Our Years: Artists and Activists on Making Ends Meet, both by Soft Skull Press. She has two chapbooks, The Animal Husband, published by Dancing Girl Press, and The Salt Daughter, by Little Poem Press. In 2004, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
The Salt Daughter
The Salt Daughter takes us on a journey through the secret kitchen of an American family. This daughter is no shrinking violet. Like Alice in the well, she swims through spoilt milk, soup, wine, rotten eggs and ice cream. She is the dark bud on a head of cabbage, the burnt patch in the pot of soup, the cotton candy under the nails of a fighter. In turning back to see mother, father and siblings, The Salt Daughter is sea water and chloride, cathartic and acid. Hamm's brilliant collection resounds with the force of a fairy tale.
2nd Edition, Like a Fat Gold Watch: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and Living
The second edition, mass-market paperback, of Like a Fat Gold Watch: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and Living. This is a literary anthology of fiction, poetry, art and essays inspired by Sylvia Plath's work and life, not her death. Edited by Christine Hamm, and including work by Angela Simione, J. Hope Stein, Ann Bogle and many more.
Saints & Cannibals
A fierce book of poetry based on historical and mythical saints and cannibals, including Saint Claire and Hansel & Gretel.
Gorilla
Poetry. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Tenth Gate Prize. This surreal series of prose poems, harmonic and jarring, pops the reader into a world where the animal is a danger-suit we might all don, or is a force of chaos that breaks families, or America's unconscious hatred of women. Perhaps it is our world, perhaps more real than surreal. One of the most unusual investigations of gender and family, this collection disorders and disturbs, knowing that upending the status quo makes the best manners of all. "Christine Hamm's GORILLA is a potent and wholly original collection that traces --with the indelible strokes of dream logic --the contours of domestic dramas and estranging losses, alon...
The Making of an Antifascist
In this comprehensive and accessible book, Dean Krouk examines the young imperialist adventurer turned hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, Norwegian journalist, poet, and playwright Nordahl Grieg. This volume offers a first-rate analysis of the interwar period's political and cultural agendas in Scandinavia and Europe leading to the Second World War by examining the rise of fascism, communism, and antifascism. Krouk's presentation of Grieg's unexpected ideological tensions will be thought-provoking for many readers in the United States and elsewhere.
Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in â€...
Nordic War Stories
Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining national historiographies alongside representations of the war years in canonical literary works, travel writing, and film media. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national identities.
We Taste Like Presents
Lucius Sentius, along with most people in the city of Rome, assumes that the debauched days of Nero are behind them now that Rome has settled down under a sober new ruler, Vespasian. Lucius may be only the son of a merchant, but his newly arranged marriage to an older widow will bring powerful connections and an enviable life--if he keeps himself on a respectable path.The upcoming marriage seems impossible when he discovers that his heart lies somewhere not at all respectable: his lifelong friend Trio, the reserved and serious son of one of the most reserved and pious families in the city.As Lucius is pushed along the course of duty to family, to his promised spouse, and to Rome itself, he begins to see under the surface of his city, into a net of intrigues, manipulation, and corruption that can carry him upward in status and power...or destroy both him and the people he loves.A serial novel in 7 parts.
